Humanist philosophy

From the beginning, Lauren Van Der Post has been aware of a dimension in life far longer and more significant than the outer eventfulness of everyday living.

`The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation.

This is Friedrich Nietzsche's seminal work; "e;Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits"e; - first published in 1878.

"e;A hard-hitting polemic against religious fundamentalism"e; - Foreword by Richard Dawkins' Thousands of people have written to tell me that I am wrong not to believe in God.

Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century The TimesWhat begins as the record of W.

The Secular Outlook: In Defense of Moral and Political Secularism shows how people can live together and overcome the challenge of religious terrorism by adopting a "e;secular outlook"e; on life and politics.

The Secular Outlook: In Defense of Moral and Political Secularism shows how people can live together and overcome the challenge of religious terrorism by adopting a "e;secular outlook"e; on life and politics.

This new title in the popular 'Flash' series gets straight to the key facts about Humanism.

In the world of today, men on both sides of the science-humanities barrier feel an urgent need for mutual understanding.

Emery Bigot's life spans the most brilliant years of seventeenth-century France.

Do our lives have meaning?

This book reflects the wide-spread belief that the twenty-first century is evolving in a significantly different way to the twentieth, which witnessed the advance of human rationality and technological progress, including urbanisation, and called into question the public and cultural significance of religion.

Feminist philosophers have been some of the most vocal critics of reason and rationality.

This book reflects the wide-spread belief that the twenty-first century is evolving in a significantly different way to the twentieth, which witnessed the advance of human rationality and technological progress, including urbanisation, and called into question the public and cultural significance of religion.

Post-Olympic Britain looks like a very different country from the brittle, post-riot Britain of 2011.

Intentionality - the relationship between conscious states and their objects - is one of the most discussed topics in contemporary debates in philosophy of mind, cognitive neuroscience and the study of consciousness.

One of the most celebrated of Plato's ideas was that if human society was ever to function successfully then philosophers would need to become kings, or kings philosophers.

Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali considers the impact that aggressive secularism, radical Islamism and multiculturalism are having on the Western world, and particularly Britain.

Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali considers the impact that aggressive secularism, radical Islamism and multiculturalism are having on the Western world, and particularly Britain.

Do our lives have meaning?

There has been a bad-tempered quarrel between defenders and critics of religion in recent years.

Thought-provoking short essays by Britain's leading public philosopher that show us how to discover our own answers to life's challenges'While most philosophy is written in abstruse and ponderous prose, Grayling's is a model of clarity and elegance' The Times'An enthusiastic thinker who embraces humour, common sense and lucidity' Independent~ If beauty existed only in the eye of the beholder, would that make it an unimportant quality?

Archbishop Rowan Williams is the most gifted Anglican priest of his generation.

Archbishop Rowan Williams is the most gifted Anglican priest of his generation.

A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger ScrutonIn this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness.

The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion.

Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance.

A prehistory of today's humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth centuryMany today do not recognize the word, but "e;philology"e; was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as history, culture, art, and more.

Tracing embodied transformation in the context of Gaga, the Israeli dance improvisation practice, this book demystifies what Lina Aschenbrenner coins as neo-spiritual aesthetics.

Tracing embodied transformation in the context of Gaga, the Israeli dance improvisation practice, this book demystifies what Lina Aschenbrenner coins as neo-spiritual aesthetics.

Drawing on ethnographic research, this book explores individualized religion in and around Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire.

Drawing on ethnographic research, this book explores individualized religion in and around Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire.

Humanists have been a major force in British life since the turn of the 20th century.

Humanists have been a major force in British life since the turn of the 20th century.

In this book, Marek Sullivan challenges a widespread consensus linking secularization to rationalization, and argues for a more sensual genealogy of secularity connected to affect, race and power.

In this book, Marek Sullivan challenges a widespread consensus linking secularization to rationalization, and argues for a more sensual genealogy of secularity connected to affect, race and power.

Why do some strategies for critique of religion seem to be more beneficial for constructive engagement, whereas others increase intolerance, polarization, and conflict?

Why do some strategies for critique of religion seem to be more beneficial for constructive engagement, whereas others increase intolerance, polarization, and conflict?

This book examines science fiction's relationship to religion and the sacred through the lens of significant books, films and television shows.

This book examines science fiction's relationship to religion and the sacred through the lens of significant books, films and television shows.

How and why did The Sacred Canopy by Peter L.

How and why did The Sacred Canopy by Peter L.

This worldwide study examines how religion gets into theme parks – as mission, as an aspect of culture, as fable, and by chance.

This worldwide study examines how religion gets into theme parks – as mission, as an aspect of culture, as fable, and by chance.

Eric Bain-Selbo argues that the study of religion-from philosophers to psychologists, and historians of religion to sociologists-has separated out the ends or goals of religion and thus created the conditions by which institutional religion is increasingly irrelevant in contemporary Western culture.